Does anybody has this equipment combination ? I&#039;ve got it setup with the Quick Release Clamp and Camera Plate.

Readings are 76mm lower rail and 79 upper rail.
I get perfect alignment both vertically and horizontally.
Trouble is, if i tilt the lens down -15degree, i can see in the lower corner of the lens the edge of the upper rail.

Any comments, observations and opinions welcome.

http://www.nodalninja.com/arca_style_quick_release_clamp.html

badders

01-15-2009, 01:19 AM

Never tried that combo bt I&#039;m presuming thats correct. However are you not able to remove this portion in your stitching software? For example Autodesk Stitcher will automatically remove this n the Smartblend render.

nick fan

01-15-2009, 02:58 AM

This is normal.
Ptgui will remove it automatically.

NIck

John Houghton

01-15-2009, 11:14 AM

It is very common for parts of the pano head and tripod to intrude into the view of the camera in some positions. Tilt the camera down by 90 degrees for the nadir and you see rather a lot of hardware. Strictly speaking, PTGui will not automatically take any steps to remove these unwanted parts of the images. They may well get lost in the blending by virtue of the routing of the seams. However, sometimes the unwanted black areas actually get blended in and cause dark smudges. The solution then is to apply alpha channel masks to the input images to mask out the unwanted areas, which PTGui will then ignore. For details on creating alpha channel masks in Photoshop, see http://www.johnhpanos.com/alphatut.htm

John

Tri3

01-15-2009, 01:04 PM

Hmm Alpha channels. I will have to give this a go when I get the chance.

badders

01-17-2009, 01:28 AM

Check out Autodesk Stitcher 2009. It will remove this automatically. No alpha channels required.

ptortora

01-19-2010, 03:05 PM

I have a D700 with a 16mm Nikon fisheye and NN5 with quick release on its way. Nice to see the A and B settings although I&#039;ll verify them specific to my lens/body. Those of you with that same setup, do you find that a 60 degree rotation gives enough overlap for 360 degree virtual tours? I&#039;m just starting out with panos so please pardon my ignorance.

nick fan

01-19-2010, 07:06 PM

I have a D700 with a 16mm Nikon fisheye and NN5 with quick release on its way. Nice to see the A and B settings although I&#039;ll verify them specific to my lens/body. Those of you with that same setup, do you find that a 60 degree rotation gives enough overlap for 360 degree virtual tours? I&#039;m just starting out with panos so please pardon my ignorance.

for 16mm fisheye on D700, take 6 shots around, zenith and nadir shots.